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Lithodid-Man
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Message 46 of 81 (535227)
11-13-2009 8:25 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Rahvin
11-12-2009 3:20 PM


Treknobabble....
I get what you are saying, but enjoy the treknobabble! I have more than once lost beverages through the nose when Geordi tries to explains something. Reminded me of this awesome song by Voltaire:

Doctor Bashir: "Of all the stories you told me, which were true and which weren't?"
Elim Garak: "My dear Doctor, they're all true"
Doctor Bashir: "Even the lies?"
Elim Garak: "Especially the lies"

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Granny Magda
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Message 47 of 81 (535228)
11-13-2009 8:41 PM
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11-13-2009 8:03 PM


Re: The Cure, anyone?
Hi Larni,
Crazy bitch.
Is that your professional opinion?
Mutate and Survive

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RAZD
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Message 48 of 81 (535230)
11-13-2009 8:59 PM
Reply to: Message 41 by Granny Magda
11-13-2009 7:40 PM


Re: Comic Books
On a related note, I have you to thank for turning me onto the excellent and much missed Cectic comic strips. Great stuff.
Yeah what's up with that? No notice or anything just the same strip left up (it's on my "sunday" list of comix). Did the robot get him?
Try this one:
Calamities of Nature: Archive
Enjoy.

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Granny Magda
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Message 49 of 81 (535232)
11-13-2009 9:14 PM
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11-13-2009 8:59 PM


Re: Comic Books
It is a shame about Cectic. Rudi got new job I think and just didn't have the time to produce a regular comic any more. More at Comics by Rudism - Cectic Just scroll down a bit.
Calamities of Nature is great. I bet this one will appeal to you...
Calamities of Nature: Archive
Mutate and Survive

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RAZD
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Message 50 of 81 (535235)
11-13-2009 9:40 PM
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11-13-2009 9:14 PM


Re: Comic Books
yeah, I thought of posting it on the humor thread.

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BMG
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Message 51 of 81 (535243)
11-13-2009 11:44 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by Straggler
11-12-2009 6:43 PM


Re: Guilty Pleasures
Oh my god! If I were your father I would disown you.
You think that's bad, read my list of music that I'm ashamed of enjoying:
1) Coldplay - I enjoy countless songs of theirs.
2) Chris Isaac's "Wicked games".
3) Sting's remake of "Fields of Gold".
I also enjoy playing guitar hero...a lot.

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Blue Jay
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Message 52 of 81 (535244)
11-14-2009 12:06 AM
Reply to: Message 28 by Straggler
11-12-2009 7:42 PM


Re: Guilty Pleasures
Hi, Straggler.
Straggler writes:
Hey I know BG!
You'd disown your kid over Bon Jovi, but you excitedly admit having a personal connection to Boy George?
I really like Bon Jovi. I can even sing the lyrics from the debut album. I always sing with the radio. Except when I'm around my parents: the theme to "Bed of Roses" is just not uplifting.
I also like Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon, Guns'N'Roses, Journey... okay, so Journey isn't that embarrassing. I particularly like power ballads, which is apparently quite weird these days (being of a quasi-autistic personality myself, I have almost no skill at judging these things myself, so I often make mistakes).
As for TV/movies... I love B-movies and stupid TV shows. I honestly like making fun of TV shows as I watch them. Fortunately, my wife is very patient with it.
Oh, and I can moonwalk.

-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)
Darwin loves you.

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Lithodid-Man
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Message 53 of 81 (535252)
11-14-2009 3:05 AM
Reply to: Message 51 by BMG
11-13-2009 11:44 PM


Re: Guilty Pleasures - music
I am known by friends and relatives as someone who loves and is immersed in classic American hardcore punk - Black Flag, the Freeze, Crucifux, Dead Kennedys, MDC, etc. I often wax nostalgic about how sad it was when punk died in 1985 etc.
But now and even back in the day I would listen to (and like a lot) of 70's and 80's AM stars such as Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Partridge Family, and other such bands (not cross-comparing those, just naming a few). Music that I was quite ashamed of liking and certainly denied thrice before the cock crowed back in, say, 1983. Now enough time has passed that such music has become classic (no longer "commercialized pop crap").

Doctor Bashir: "Of all the stories you told me, which were true and which weren't?"
Elim Garak: "My dear Doctor, they're all true"
Doctor Bashir: "Even the lies?"
Elim Garak: "Especially the lies"

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Larni
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Message 54 of 81 (535256)
11-14-2009 4:52 AM
Reply to: Message 47 by Granny Magda
11-13-2009 8:41 PM


Re: The Cure, anyone?
Is that your professional opinion?
Oh, yes.
From 17 to 21 she lived with her then boyfriend in an ambulance with the stinkiest dog there ever was.
Then she emigrated to Canada (take that Nosy Ned!).

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Huntard
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Message 55 of 81 (535265)
11-14-2009 7:19 AM
Reply to: Message 39 by RAZD
11-13-2009 6:40 PM


Re: Comic Books
Hmm, yes, Looking for Group springs to mind, I espcially find the warlock hilarious, and think he's really the strength of the series.
Check them out at: Looking For Group - The Webcomic (updates on mondays and thursdays)
Also, it seems you are all hiding alot from your "environment" I don't hide any of my guilty pleasures, and some of my frineds laugh at me for them (Yet still went to the new Star Trek Movie with me, so yeah, they're actually just as bad.) But I can't say I hide them. Nerds For Teh Win!11!
{ABE} Also to Rahvin: So, I gather you like my avatar then
Edited by Huntard, : {ABE} bit

I hunt for the truth
I am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

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RAZD
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Message 56 of 81 (535289)
11-14-2009 12:12 PM
Reply to: Message 55 by Huntard
11-14-2009 7:19 AM


Re: Comic Books
Hi Huntard,
Check them out at: Looking For Group - The Webcomic (updates on mondays and thursdays)
And I was wondering what to do on a rainy saturday ...
See what you think of
http://sorcery101.net/d/20050512.html
and
Gunnerkrigg Court - By Tom Siddell
It's interesting to see a strip grow, and the art changes. A friend of mine contributes to
Sucuri WebSite Firewall - Access Denied
My other not so secret pleasure is sudoku (thanks Rrhain)
http://www.websudoku.com/
http://www.websudoku.com/
You can set your level, and see how you do compared to others.
I also use them to gauge the effect of chemotherapy on my cognitive abilities (logic, attention span and concentration), and can see marked differences. It's a condition called "chemobrain" in the literature, and effects range from person to person, from temporary to permanent. It is somewhat disturbing to find how unaware one can be of the differences without such benchmarks. Kind of like seeing how the other half of the human race lives, and just trust that the effects are not cumulative or with some permanent loss.
So I'll take my "guilty pleasures" and enjoy them for all they are worth.
Enjoy.
Edited by RAZD, : spling

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to share.


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SammyJean
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Message 57 of 81 (535291)
11-14-2009 12:28 PM
Reply to: Message 43 by Larni
11-13-2009 7:45 PM


Re: 80's Flash back
Dude! Like no way! Depeche Mode was, like totally my favorite. Bitchin band!

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onifre
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Message 58 of 81 (535292)
11-14-2009 12:30 PM
Reply to: Message 45 by Larni
11-13-2009 8:03 PM


Re: The Cure, anyone?
My sister did. She loved the dark eye shadow and the freaky 'Spiderman' video.
Good song, scary video.
She wanted to be a grave digger, too.
Crazy bitch.
I think I'm in love.
- Oni

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SammyJean
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Message 59 of 81 (535293)
11-14-2009 12:49 PM
Reply to: Message 44 by onifre
11-13-2009 7:49 PM


Re: The Cure, anyone?
Kind of close, dude.
[thumb=200]http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj259/sammyjean1970/Sam.jpg[/thumb=200]
Me at 14.

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Straggler
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Message 60 of 81 (535319)
11-14-2009 6:09 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by Blue Jay
11-14-2009 12:06 AM


Re: Guilty Pleasures
Straggler writes:
Hey I know BG! (Well..I know one of BG's dancers who knows BG who wouldn't know me from a puddle). But I have been in the same room as BG.
You'd disown your kid over Bon Jovi, but you excitedly admit having a personal connection to Boy George?
Actually I was never a fan of Boy George. Nor did he particularly excite me. It was just this particular dancer
It was a looong time ago.
I also like Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon.....
........I particularly like power ballads
If you were my kid you could at this point consider yourself disowned.
Oh, and I can moonwalk.
How incredibly naff whilst at the same time being unbelievably cool. You have both my respect and derision in equal measure.

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